"The Chronicles of Numbskullia: The Monarchy, The Idiot, and The Agenda" or "Springtime For Idiot"
Sitting here, looking out my window at that phallic symbol of our nation's capitol, the Washington Monument, I muse to myself that proximity of it to the White House must somehow, (psychically? gravitationally? I don't know...) cause the current inhabitants to behave as they do, like a bunch of dickheads.
This whole morass with the Miers nomination features the same players, in their usual roles (kind of like Hollywood, right?) pulling the same kind of crap as they have for too many years.
This one comes off with a classic Hollywood cloak and dagger, Nazi theme:
First, there’s “Idiot”, a cross between Alfred E. Newman and Mel Brooks’ version of “Der Fuhrer”, making yet another bad choice in the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Don’t blame him, though. The real culprit is none other than his old man. Idiot is nothing more than a front for his father, the financier and head of the Third Reich.
Dick Cheney is the Fuhrer’s right-hand-man. Head of the SS. Behind the scenes, his manipulations are not actually witnessed, but their effects are prominent and far-reaching. Maybe he’s actually a transplant of the Wizard from the Wizard of Oz. (Hmmm…another nice twist.)
Karl Rove, of course, operates like some sinister Gestapo agent, secretly assuring political allies that the Fuhrer has their best interests in-hand, and probably cooking up all manner of schemes in his lab of torture and horrors.
Then, in a brilliant Hollywood twist, we have Miers, who has the same exact diabolical makeup as Star War’s Palpatine – she looks like him too. Cloaked in the sweetness of religion and tolerance for alternative relationships, she bides her time waiting for the right moment to seize her dominion and have us all living in some sort of puritanical hypocrisy.
Finally, we have the typical supporting players in the form of Congress: bumbling fools, “yes” men, and wind bags for comic relief. This includes both sides of “the aisle”.
The Republicans are the dark humor. They stomp around like they actually matter to the administration, all puffed up and full of bravado. A “we’re going to get to the bottom of this”, kind of mentality. Rather absurd individuals in general.
(Tom Delay is going to come up in another post. No room for it here).
Just watch Lindsey Graham (Rep. S.C.) sometime. My feelings of disdain for this little weasel began years ago during the Clinton-Lewinsky saga. He’s a pompus, self-rightous jackass trying forever to somehow get over the fact his parents gave him a girl’s name. (Four Terms! What is wrong with the people of South Carolina?) He certainly knows the game, though. During the Roberts’ hearings and now the Miers’ hearings, he repeats the same line, “let’s wait until we’re in the hearings and be fair about it”. If you don’t know, that’s slick speak for, “we still haven’t figured out how we’re going to push this one through and hopefully we’ll be able to figure it out by the time we’re in front of the cameras at the hearing”. (I especially hate that “nelly twang” he speaks with.)
Well, pay attention. One thing similar about both of these nominees, which Killer pointed out to me, is neither of them have significant time serving “as Judges”. Think about that! Miers has no experience as a judge and Roberts only served as a judge for about 2 years. So basically the Cheney/Rove plan is to populate the Supreme Court with a bunch of lawyers. That’s a concept that chills me to the bone. (Barbados, here I come.)
The Democrats are the slap-stick humor. They basically run around scared because they are a minority. Safety in numbers, and most of them don’t feel like they have enough of them, so they’ve developed a sort of inferiority complex. How they let Roberts cake-walk his way to Chief Justice, without so much as a whimper is beyond me. No One. Not one person even dared to bring up Roberts lack of experience. The DNC called me and asked me donate money to help defeat the Roberts nomination. Based not on the results, but the lack of a cohesive strategy, I’d have been pissed off if I had. It’s clear to me that this group has lost their balls and are in a complete state of disarray. How, with the continuous stream of ammunition that the current administration has fed them with, have they not managed to seal the coffin on the up-coming mid-term elections?
Oh, and let’s not forget the Media (note that I do not refer to them as journalists). The Media is the great propaganda machine of “Der Fuhrer’s” empire through their own self-inflicted handicaps which arise out of their mantra: “We’re Entertainment, not News”.
I can see Wolf Blitzer and crew punching their timecards as they arrive at CNN this morning, a note taped up beside the timecard puncher, “NOTICE: All reporting must slant more to the Right today since Ratings Research indicates CNN’s audience has a more Conservative make-up on Thursdays. P.S. Keep Scaring Our Viewers – Fear keeps them Tuned-In”.
I re-read the above and I chuckle to myself. But I really don’t think I should be laughing. There is an agenda in play here and I don’t hear anyone bringing it up. So I will.
The current administration realizes that the current Fuhrer has become a lame duck. Being very slick strategists, they knew from the beginning that it was only a matter of time before the American public realized what a fool he was and support for him would wane. So, how best to minimize the long-term effects and maximize the ability of the conservative machine to remain in-power or not far from it?
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It’s 2002, and Karl and Dick are sitting in some shadow darkened room discussing their course of action:
DICK
Karl, we have to keep our eyes on the ball. We have two important goals here. Keep the conservative agenda as America’s agenda and keep the Bush family’s Monarchy alive. Jeb is getting ready.
KARL
No problem, Dick. We’ll make sure we have our cronies in key positions so that should we end up with a liberal administration after this one, we can still fight from within.
Let me be clear, I think I’ve totally got the “vote counting” program locked and loaded. But just in case, we can execute on this program as a failsafe.
Now the public, both sides, will probably have a problem with some of our appointments, but I think we can whitewash a bunch of this so we don’t alienate too many of our supporters. On the other hand, fuck ‘em. We have the power and can smugly tell them “this is how it is”. Most conservatives are stupid people anyway. Mostly rednecks. They’ll come back again. Just like the sheep they tend to. The Dems, while the most educated of them, just seem to wander around lost.
And this will play perfectly into Jeb and the monarchy. We win on two sides. The cronies that we appoint to key positions will be forever indebted to the monarchy, and the cronies that we make happy by appointing people “friendly” to their causes will be sure to give Jeb the support he needs to take-over in 2008 or 2012, depending on if the “vote counting” program is as effective as it has been in the past two elections. It’s a win-win on all sides.
DICK
Karl, get your hand off of my knee. I’ve spoken with you about that before.
(Karl, frustrated by the reproach, removes his hand)
Anyway, sounds like a good plan. You identify the key slots with the appropriate people and I’ll program Idiot.
Oh, and one other thing, stop leaving a pubic hair on my toilet seat when you use my executive washroom. You think I can’t tell that you do it on purpose? It’s a sick, passively sexual endeavor and you need to keep it in check.
(Dick stands and walks to the door, mumbling under his breath)
Sick bastard. Now I’ve got to figure out how to stop bleeding money to those lazy storm victims.
KARL
(Recovered from the admonishment. Saluting and clicking his back heels.)
Zieg Heil!
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Far fetched? Maybe you’re thinking, “Dave, too many Oliver Stone films, dude”. Maybe, but I think the current administration’s actions of late speak much louder than my words.
If the current minority has any hope of bringing any sort of “human agenda” before the sheep herders and getting them to embrace it, then they, we, need to get it together. We need a sound, cohesive strategy that, like any good marketing campaign, is able to expose the inadequacies of the current administration’s agenda and demonstrate why ours is better for Americans - through facts, not namby pamby esoteric philosophies. That strategy also needs a face, and that face is definitely not John Kerry’s. This person needs to have a personality that can transcend generations, races, sexes, and spiritual beliefs.
I’d like to say it could be Hillary, but as Killer keeps pointing out, she seems to be a magnet for hatred. I don’t completely understand it, but I think it’s valid, nonetheless.
John Edwards? Hmmmm…
This whole morass with the Miers nomination features the same players, in their usual roles (kind of like Hollywood, right?) pulling the same kind of crap as they have for too many years.
This one comes off with a classic Hollywood cloak and dagger, Nazi theme:
First, there’s “Idiot”, a cross between Alfred E. Newman and Mel Brooks’ version of “Der Fuhrer”, making yet another bad choice in the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Don’t blame him, though. The real culprit is none other than his old man. Idiot is nothing more than a front for his father, the financier and head of the Third Reich.
Dick Cheney is the Fuhrer’s right-hand-man. Head of the SS. Behind the scenes, his manipulations are not actually witnessed, but their effects are prominent and far-reaching. Maybe he’s actually a transplant of the Wizard from the Wizard of Oz. (Hmmm…another nice twist.)
Karl Rove, of course, operates like some sinister Gestapo agent, secretly assuring political allies that the Fuhrer has their best interests in-hand, and probably cooking up all manner of schemes in his lab of torture and horrors.
Then, in a brilliant Hollywood twist, we have Miers, who has the same exact diabolical makeup as Star War’s Palpatine – she looks like him too. Cloaked in the sweetness of religion and tolerance for alternative relationships, she bides her time waiting for the right moment to seize her dominion and have us all living in some sort of puritanical hypocrisy.
Finally, we have the typical supporting players in the form of Congress: bumbling fools, “yes” men, and wind bags for comic relief. This includes both sides of “the aisle”.
The Republicans are the dark humor. They stomp around like they actually matter to the administration, all puffed up and full of bravado. A “we’re going to get to the bottom of this”, kind of mentality. Rather absurd individuals in general.
(Tom Delay is going to come up in another post. No room for it here).
Just watch Lindsey Graham (Rep. S.C.) sometime. My feelings of disdain for this little weasel began years ago during the Clinton-Lewinsky saga. He’s a pompus, self-rightous jackass trying forever to somehow get over the fact his parents gave him a girl’s name. (Four Terms! What is wrong with the people of South Carolina?) He certainly knows the game, though. During the Roberts’ hearings and now the Miers’ hearings, he repeats the same line, “let’s wait until we’re in the hearings and be fair about it”. If you don’t know, that’s slick speak for, “we still haven’t figured out how we’re going to push this one through and hopefully we’ll be able to figure it out by the time we’re in front of the cameras at the hearing”. (I especially hate that “nelly twang” he speaks with.)
Well, pay attention. One thing similar about both of these nominees, which Killer pointed out to me, is neither of them have significant time serving “as Judges”. Think about that! Miers has no experience as a judge and Roberts only served as a judge for about 2 years. So basically the Cheney/Rove plan is to populate the Supreme Court with a bunch of lawyers. That’s a concept that chills me to the bone. (Barbados, here I come.)
The Democrats are the slap-stick humor. They basically run around scared because they are a minority. Safety in numbers, and most of them don’t feel like they have enough of them, so they’ve developed a sort of inferiority complex. How they let Roberts cake-walk his way to Chief Justice, without so much as a whimper is beyond me. No One. Not one person even dared to bring up Roberts lack of experience. The DNC called me and asked me donate money to help defeat the Roberts nomination. Based not on the results, but the lack of a cohesive strategy, I’d have been pissed off if I had. It’s clear to me that this group has lost their balls and are in a complete state of disarray. How, with the continuous stream of ammunition that the current administration has fed them with, have they not managed to seal the coffin on the up-coming mid-term elections?
Oh, and let’s not forget the Media (note that I do not refer to them as journalists). The Media is the great propaganda machine of “Der Fuhrer’s” empire through their own self-inflicted handicaps which arise out of their mantra: “We’re Entertainment, not News”.
I can see Wolf Blitzer and crew punching their timecards as they arrive at CNN this morning, a note taped up beside the timecard puncher, “NOTICE: All reporting must slant more to the Right today since Ratings Research indicates CNN’s audience has a more Conservative make-up on Thursdays. P.S. Keep Scaring Our Viewers – Fear keeps them Tuned-In”.
I re-read the above and I chuckle to myself. But I really don’t think I should be laughing. There is an agenda in play here and I don’t hear anyone bringing it up. So I will.
The current administration realizes that the current Fuhrer has become a lame duck. Being very slick strategists, they knew from the beginning that it was only a matter of time before the American public realized what a fool he was and support for him would wane. So, how best to minimize the long-term effects and maximize the ability of the conservative machine to remain in-power or not far from it?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It’s 2002, and Karl and Dick are sitting in some shadow darkened room discussing their course of action:
DICK
Karl, we have to keep our eyes on the ball. We have two important goals here. Keep the conservative agenda as America’s agenda and keep the Bush family’s Monarchy alive. Jeb is getting ready.
KARL
No problem, Dick. We’ll make sure we have our cronies in key positions so that should we end up with a liberal administration after this one, we can still fight from within.
Let me be clear, I think I’ve totally got the “vote counting” program locked and loaded. But just in case, we can execute on this program as a failsafe.
Now the public, both sides, will probably have a problem with some of our appointments, but I think we can whitewash a bunch of this so we don’t alienate too many of our supporters. On the other hand, fuck ‘em. We have the power and can smugly tell them “this is how it is”. Most conservatives are stupid people anyway. Mostly rednecks. They’ll come back again. Just like the sheep they tend to. The Dems, while the most educated of them, just seem to wander around lost.
And this will play perfectly into Jeb and the monarchy. We win on two sides. The cronies that we appoint to key positions will be forever indebted to the monarchy, and the cronies that we make happy by appointing people “friendly” to their causes will be sure to give Jeb the support he needs to take-over in 2008 or 2012, depending on if the “vote counting” program is as effective as it has been in the past two elections. It’s a win-win on all sides.
DICK
Karl, get your hand off of my knee. I’ve spoken with you about that before.
(Karl, frustrated by the reproach, removes his hand)
Anyway, sounds like a good plan. You identify the key slots with the appropriate people and I’ll program Idiot.
Oh, and one other thing, stop leaving a pubic hair on my toilet seat when you use my executive washroom. You think I can’t tell that you do it on purpose? It’s a sick, passively sexual endeavor and you need to keep it in check.
(Dick stands and walks to the door, mumbling under his breath)
Sick bastard. Now I’ve got to figure out how to stop bleeding money to those lazy storm victims.
KARL
(Recovered from the admonishment. Saluting and clicking his back heels.)
Zieg Heil!
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Far fetched? Maybe you’re thinking, “Dave, too many Oliver Stone films, dude”. Maybe, but I think the current administration’s actions of late speak much louder than my words.
If the current minority has any hope of bringing any sort of “human agenda” before the sheep herders and getting them to embrace it, then they, we, need to get it together. We need a sound, cohesive strategy that, like any good marketing campaign, is able to expose the inadequacies of the current administration’s agenda and demonstrate why ours is better for Americans - through facts, not namby pamby esoteric philosophies. That strategy also needs a face, and that face is definitely not John Kerry’s. This person needs to have a personality that can transcend generations, races, sexes, and spiritual beliefs.
I’d like to say it could be Hillary, but as Killer keeps pointing out, she seems to be a magnet for hatred. I don’t completely understand it, but I think it’s valid, nonetheless.
John Edwards? Hmmmm…
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